Vox Encore

"Sometimes hope can become reality &mdash; and Vox's hope to return to Palamecia once more has been fulfilled. Experience his encore in a battle ranking event format! ★Face an illusion to end all illusions★"

- In-game description

Vox Encore is the final Ranked "battle tower" event for Mobius Final Fantasy, available in March 2020. It features duels against the newly revived Vox.

Event Details

 * Ranking Event duration: March 27 - April 3, 2020


 * Event type: progressive Tower Battle

How to Participate

 * Select "Vox's Encore" from the Act 2 world map -- its own red spot.
 * This event is only accessible after a player clears the Runic Temple in Chapter 1

Story
Vox is back... and he's in the Tower of Trials! He's taken Wol's lessons of hope to heart, and found his own: to defeat our heroes! And with that, Vox reforms himself into 8... 10... 15 different forms, at the same time! He'll never be a memory.

Gameplay
Players in this area must use specific Job Types in both the primary and secondary decks to be allowed to climb each of the five ladders. You'll get a denial message if you don't have a valid deck. Go set up your jobs!

Play in this area progresses up each tower, from the starting Character level up to the top Ragnarok level. As you work your way up the towers, the battles at each level will get progressively harder.

Each area has two skirmishes:
 * 1) The first one is against fodder fiends (Dryads and Bombs).
 * 2) The second features a confrontation with Vox in one of one of his ten aspects, decked with recent Ability Cards. These can include Supreme Cards, and his power ramps up fairly quickly.

Vox behaviour
Vox has a set of orb icons on his status bar, indicating how many elemental orbs he has. As he attacks, these will fill up. If any element gets above a count of 4, Vox will cast a more powerful attack on the next turn in that element. However, he loses all of his stored elements if you Break him.

His status bar also shows an. When this fills to 100, Vox will hit you with an Ultimate attack. A full HP bar and or  will be important to survive these. He starts out with this Gauge at 99, so break him quickly!

When Vox's HP goes below 50% he will gain to overcome any Break state, then switch to a different element (the second one listed) with a more powerful set of attacks. He also refills his Ultimate Gauge!

Event Map
""You have shown me what true hope is. Now let me repay you in kind.""

- World Map description

There are five different towers, with five areas each, offering different bosses -- and a different restriction -- on each tower.

Players can choose to teleport to or "climb" the towers in any order, but cannot revisit areas that have already been defeated. (except for the immediately previous area as a teleport spot, but this area will not have the boss foe)

Each tower then concludes with its own infinitely looping "Phantasmic Coil" area. For first four towers this is a set of 3 areas that repeat in an infinite loop, also with an increasing difficulty with each area finished. On these levels, a Prize of x5 is handed out for each loop completed.

When starting the Phantasmic Loop, you are offered three spaces. These are shortcuts that will allow the better players to skip ahead to the high-difficulty loops without needing to slog through the lower-level stuff.
 * Beginner starts you at Loop 1 -- with no skip-ahead.
 * Intermediate starts you at Loop 5 -- 12 kills awarded.
 * Advanced starts you at Loop 10 -- 27 kills awarded.

There are 58 total areas across 5 towers, with 15 treasure chests. Since the last treasure chest in each tower (in the Phantasmic Coils) automatically regenerates, the region can technically never be completed.

Tower 1: Meia
This tower features battles against Vox (Mage). Players must go in with a Meia job on both the Main and sub-Jobs. Any Ultimate Hero is valid except for Princess of Dusk (Hero), Dawn Warrior (Hero) and Archfiend (Hero).

Tower 2: Sarah
This tower features battles against Vox (Ranger). Players must go in with a Sarah job on both the Main and sub-Jobs. Any Ultimate Hero is valid except for Dawn Warrior (Hero) and Archfiend (Hero).

Tower 3: WoL
This tower features battles against Vox (Warrior). Players must go in with a Warrior job on both the Main and sub-Jobs. Any Ultimate Hero is valid except for Princess of Dusk (Hero), and Graff cannot be used.

Tower 4: Sophie
This tower features battles against Vox (Monk). Players must go in with a Sophie job on both the Main and sub-Jobs. Any Ultimate Hero is valid except for Princess of Dusk (Hero), Dawn Warrior (Hero) and Archfiend (Hero).

Tower 5: The Doubting Swordsman
This tower features battles against Vox (Warrior). Players must go in with a Graff job on both the Main and sub-Jobs. Any Ultimate Hero is valid except for Princess of Dusk (Hero), Dawn Warrior (Hero) and Archfiend (Hero).

The Final Challenge
As a last hurrah, there is one final battle against Vox at his strongest! In order to gain entrance, you must first complete all five towers, plus you need to complete the Mobius FF Developers' Room and obtain the.

Vox starts with a boon that protects him from attacks for up to 12 turns. You'll need to overcome this to get anywhere. Also, at 50% health, Vox conjures four Elemental Support crystals to help him, and recharges his Light of Hope boon. This is a titanic fight!

Rewards
The game awards the starting job cards for non-WoL characters to you at the beginning of the contest, maxed out, if you have not already obtained them from other sources. This guarantees that all players can participate, regardless of experience or Job collection.

Each area cleared rewards the player with a, and a "Vox Kill". Increasing these gives progressively better Titles, and requisite rewards:

Story Completion Rewards
After completing all 5 Ragnarok nodes player will receive:
 * x3
 * x10
 * x9

Ranking Rewards
The typical Ranked Event rewards were offered in the first week of the region's appearance. While the region is playable until the end of service (3 months' time), this is "exhibition" play only, and does not offer ranked rewards.

Because of the impending shutdown of the game, participation will be very low, so anyone who completes all of the normal levels should easily make it within the top 10,000 players. The top 2,000 players will get s as a reward. These are used to open special high-end rewards in the Rift.

Notable Enemies

 * Vox (Wahrsager)
 * Vox (Sorceress of Oblivion)
 * Vox (Magitek Jester)
 * Vox (Judge Magister)
 * Vox (Soranaki)
 * Vox (Lightning)
 * Vox (Shorn One)
 * Vox (Sephiroth)
 * Vox (Cloud)
 * Vox (Ascetic)
 * Vox (Tifa)
 * Vox (Kampfer)
 * Vox (Scharfrichter)
 * Vox (Sorceress' Knight)
 * Vox (Squall)
 * Vox (Dawn Warrior)

Reference

 * Mobius Final Fantasy News Page Announcement
 * Vox Encore superthread on Reddit
 * BuffMaister's compilation of the videos from the event
 * Platina Valkyrie's video of the Final Illusion